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Show Alaska Needs Railroads. Tho thing that Is holding back Alaskan Alas-kan mining and trndo Is the Inadequate Inade-quate railroad facilities of tho country an Insurperablo olistaclo to trade beyond be-yond the merest necessities of existence exist-ence At tho present time tboro is only one railroad that penetrates to tho Interior In-terior of AJaska and of that only 30 miles nro on American soil. This road runs from Skagwuy, at tho head of Lynn canal, and connects tho tide-' tide-' water with tho Yukon rivor. Except during tho four months that navigation naviga-tion is open from Juno to Octobor this railroad controls tho trodo of tho Yukon valley, It is as If tho only railroad rail-road between tho Atlantlo and tho Mississippi woro from Albauy to Troy. SyBtom. |
